Blocking is always a good way to avoid needing to explain the contradictions in one’s reasoning.

Yikes, a major war you say?

Those are not my words. Not even Elon’s. Those are the words of the author of Elon’s biography, Walter Isaacson. What Elon said is:

If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.

The reason Ukraine can’t use Starlink in Russia (or occupied territories) is because Starlink is not enabled there due to US sanctions to Russia. Enabling it would be literally illegal for him to do. He also added later that had he been contacted by US officials and told to enable it, he would have, but they didn’t.

I don’t get people like you that start their rant by telling me to fuck off and then expect me to continue reading any further.

Assuming success and hoping for the contrary are not in conflict with eachother

It’s rare to see someone value truth over pride. Kudos to you.

Did Elon Musk Turn Off Starlink Access in Crimea To Disrupt Ukrainian Attack?

To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not. They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet. Musk did not enable it, because he thought, probably correctly, that would cause a major war.

Serious. Even if people don’t say it aloud, there are ones practically hoping for Tesla FSD to fail and kill someone, Neuralink recipient to die of complications or the Crew Dragon module to fail and kill the astronauts only so that they can say “I told you so” and then keep shitting on Elon. Any rational person would hope for these companies to succeed despite who the CEO is because it’ll benefit all of us on the long run.

What’s the irony? Unlike Boeing in the past few years, SpaceX has a rather good reputation among the people whose judgement is not blinded by hatred towards the CEO.

The insanity of Elon haters is beyond me…

Unfortunelately no, I live on the opposite side of the planet

I’ve only been doing this for around 6 months so I haven’t had any that special jobs so far but I did a small kitchen remodel to one customer where I tore down the old and build a new one for her which was quite enjoyable job.

My favourite jobs are ones that require creativity and problem solving. When ever I can fix something instead of replacing it is fun. This is a recent example of such job:

It’s honestly easier to list what I don’t do which is building something bigger than a shed, electric work, work inside tanks / wells, challenging tree fellings, jobs that require more than one person such as roofing, asbestos demolition and jobs where I need to deal with refrigerants.

It wouldn’t really matter. If I knowingly install something “wrong” it’s on me even if it’s how the customer wanted it. I wouldn’t agree to something like this if I was worried about it causing issues in the future. After 2 years it’s no longer on my responsibility.

I was a nervous wreck for months while getting the preparations done to start up. Never been that anxious before. I just had to do it because I knew I’d regret if I didn’t.

It is. The problem is that vinyl carpet floor can be too soft for vinyl planks and thus in the worst case the seams might open up. Laying vinyl planks on laminate or parquet wouldn’t be an issue because it’s a hard surface.

It’s the original vinyl flooring in this case and even though it’s not generally recommended to lay “luxury vinyl planks” on top of it, it usually is not a problem and the customer didn’t want me to tear out the old flooring due to how much extra work that would cause.

Well, I’m on Lemmy myself, so perhaps that’s some sort of an indication of where I prefer to discuss thing with people in general, not just about AI. My list of blocked users is rather vast though, so a big part of the loudest haters are being filtered out from my feed. That surely contributes to the better experience here - or atleast less bad.

Definitely prefered it over there at reddit, but I’m a man of principle so I’m not going back either.

No, but probably the dedicated subreddit

I couldn’t think of a worse platform to try and discuss this topic than Lemmy. The consensus here is essentially that big companies = bad, AI companies = big, and thus AI = bad.

…is how generative-AI haters redefine terms and move the goalposts to fight their cognitive dissonance.

Well first of all, I don’t personally think evil even exists.

Secondly, I don’t think these people are any more or less “evil” than the rest of us. They just operate on a much larger scale that affects many more people. If any of us normal folk would be put under equivalent level of scrutiny as these guys with journalists combing thru our every social media post and paparazzis following us around combined with the intention to dig up dirt and contribute to the negative narrative that sells better than a positive one, we’d all look like them. Most people don’t like Gates, Musk or Zuck because that’s the conclusion they’ve independently arrived at. It’s how they’ve been told to think by the media.